Sentences with phrase «greatest city of immigrants»
No one is putting a rift between our brothers and sisters who come from other nations and happen to be immigrants in the greatest city of immigrants.»
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, waves of Catholic immigrants came to America from Ireland and Germany and settled in big - city metropolises, such as New York, to the great alarm of native - born Protestants.
«In the same way I know that a child will be born today, maybe in Bellevue Hospital or Harlem Hospital, perhaps the baby daughter of a Mexican or a Dominican immigrant, and God - willing, she will go on to become the mayor of this great city,» Dinkins said.
In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump said he would «cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities,» roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions shielding undocumented foreign nationals who arrived as children, deport what he claims are «more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country» and get eliminate of visas to foreign countries that will not take them back.
Spitzer's family history is archetypal: The luxury Upper East Side building where he lives was built by his father, who amassed one of the city's great real - estate fortunes after growing up in a cold - water Lower East Side flat as the son of impoverished Mitteleuropäisch immigrants.
The «Interfaith Action & Jummah Prayer for Immigrant Communities» event, organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Majis Al Shura: The Islamic Leadership Council of Greater NY and the Inter-Faith Clergy of New York City, kicked off with a Jummah — a congregational prayer that Muslims hold every Friday — in Foley Square.
«I know that a child will be born today, maybe at Bellevue Hospital or Harlem Hospital, perhaps the baby daughter of a Mexican or Dominican immigrant and God - willing she will go on to become mayor of this great city,» Mr. Dinkins said.
«It's been shown empirically that as you have more immigrants and greater diversity of immigrants in a city, people's wages also increase, which is certainly not the narrative that is often told about immigrants in our society.
Chicago was chosen for this study because a great deal of neighborhood research has been conducted there and the city has significant pockets of immigrants to draw data from, King said.
Immigrant finds life in the greatest city in the world less than advertised in this blah telling of one soul's dismal discovery of real life here.
Elizabeth Gaffney's magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America's greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
Between 1850 and 1875, the city (and the region) received a great intake of German immigrants.
The issue is not whether the earliest Asian immigrants to North America were fine and wonderful, even civilized by standards of later European immmigrants, with great cities in parts of Central and South America, and numbering in the millions, or not.